Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)

Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73)

Allegorical Maps of Love, Courtship, and Matrimony

Fore-Edge Book Paintings from the Boston Public Library

The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll (18th–19th century)

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

Utagawa Hiroshige: Last Great Master of Ukiyo-e

The Egg Dance: From Peasant Village to Political Caricature

Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)

Adeline Harris Sears’ Autographs Quilt (1856–ca.1863)

Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)

A Collection of Fashionable English Words (1887)

Images from German “Caterpillar Calendar” (1837)

The Whims (1799) and The Follies (1815–23) of Francisco Goya

The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

Diagrams from Dr Alesha Sivartha’s Book of Life (1898)

Alphonse Bertillon’s Synoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits (ca. 1909)

The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)

On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)

Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)

Kusakabe Kimbei’s Photographs of Late 19th-Century Japan

William Sharp’s Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)